Completed Media Blog

[hudge]

Ok here is version 1 of the Media Blog. Thank you to those who helped, it was because of you.

Here is what it is, it is the news mod with bonuses. You can attach video and or images. Also you can have it display in multiple columns. It also has a rss feed and itunes feed built in.

What is coming very soon is a companion mod that will let you show last XX items, show archives, show random article, show group list, tags, ratings.

Get it today, and let us know what you think, please post and not im or pm at this time.
http://hudge.com/contributes/mediablog.zip

@stefen how do we add this to the addons?

[kweitzel]

Hi Jim,

impressive ... had a wee look at it (on the site of my Wife). Although I didn't test it completly through I didn't find any apparent faults, so I uploaded it to the add-on repository.

One question though, is there any chance, that the category list can be read from an external file, like CSV or a simple list? That would make customisation easy. If I find time (and that is not easy as a newly selfemployed ) I will translate the language file into German. If somebody is faster though ...

cheers

Klaus

[mlohnen]

Here's a dutch translation, NL.txt.. rename to NL.php to make it work.

[watermelon]

should this be just a new page type or is there some other way that it is to be used? I just installed it and it said that it installed successfully, but I don't see a blog page type...

Thanks

[kweitzel]

Here's a dutch translation, NL.txt.. rename to NL.php to make it work.

not neccessary if you download it now from the add-on repository, since it has been updated and the language file is now included.

should this be just a new page type or is there some other way that it is to be used? I just installed it and it said that it installed successfully, but I don't see a blog page type...

It indeed crates a new pagetype called "Mediablog". What Version of WB are you using? I would think, that the installation was not successful ... can you check that the module is present in the modules folder and that the databas entries are there? Als just try to use the "reload add-ons" function in the section "admin" - "settings" - "show advanced options" ...

cheers

Klaus

[marccouture]

This module installs just fine, but there are a few quirks "out of the box":

- Formatting text makes drop-down menu choices appear further up the page (for instance, when trying to change the default font, the drop-down menu appears five or six lines on top; I am using FCKEditor);
- Uploading images: doesn't work at all, tried various image types and sizes, none appear in blog entries;
- Comment link: when clicked, goes to a non-existant page (on my test setup, the link goes to http://localhost/wb/pages/media_items/%5C%22http://localhost/wb/modules/mediablog/comment.php?id=2\%22)

Thanks for the work, this shows promise!

[pcwacht]

Uploading images: doesn't work at all, tried various image types and sizes, none appear in blog entries;

Can you choose the image after you have uploaded the image and return to the same item?

If so, make sure you have in settings where you want the picture:
[IMAGE_NAME] for the imagename
[IMAGE] for the image as uploaded
[IMAGE_SMALL] for small images, thumbsize
[IMAGE_LARGE] for resized image

Allso make sure to choose the right GD version in settings, try GD=2 if resizing fails, try GD=1

Comment link: when clicked, goes to a non-existant page (on my test setup,

Goto settings, change comments_footer from

Code:

</table>
<br /><a href=\"[ADD_COMMENT_URL]\">Add Comment</a>

to

Code:

</table>
<br /><a href="[ADD_COMMENT_URL]">Add Comment</a>

This needs to be changed in add.php as well

Formatting text makes drop-down menu choices appear further up the page

Couldn't get same behaviour with htmlarea, xinha, fckeditor


John

[uschzmet]

why shows '[IMAGE]'   the absolute path ...not relative     

[pcwacht]

The path is created during runtime, it fetches the parts from config and the database entry

Relative paths will only work if the path from the root of the server is known, and this is not allways the case,

If wb is installed in root, path is /...
if wb is installed in wb, path is /wb/...

This way works allways, might not be the best solution but it works...

John

[uschzmet]

the absolute path is in linux   for example /var/www/....

and this path is on [IMAGE] ....

[pcwacht]

Ahhh, sorry,

The path is needed for the thumbnail routine. It has caching etc so it needs to know the physical path for the image and the path to the cache dir.

I know it will give some detail away about your install.
It could be rewritten, ie, the thumb routine could fetch the path start from config.

Let me know if this will do and I will change it.

John

[Ditto]

Not sure what I'm doing wrong.  I installed the module without a problem, created a Private page using the MediaBlog type.  When I created my first group, I "uploaded" a pic to go with it and received this message:

Code:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/sitesolu/public_html/modules/mediablog/save_group.php on line 25

The group, however, was created fine so I added a new item into the group, again "uploading" an image to go with the item... and got the same thing.

I'm really looking forward to using this module and am happy to test further.  Let me know what to do, and I'll jump on it.

Thanks!

 

[pcwacht]

You tried saving an image to the group or to an item wich belong to that group?

The save_group.php is for saving images to the group itself so they can be displayed with the item in a list.
This is allso faulty in news module where this moudle is kinda clone of.

Let me know where the picture save goes wrong and I'll try to correct it.

John

[rikkibr]

Hi

I want to be able to submit entries without images... how do I do that?

I always get a square with a red cross, like there is suppose to be an image there.

Thanks for this module 

[pcwacht]

Change in settings the templates, remove [IMAGE] from there.


John

[marccouture]

Change in settings the templates, remove [IMAGE] from there.


John

Can you describe exactly what you mean here?  I can't find this setting.  Thanks!

EDIT: never mind, found it, I must be blind or something, hahaha. 

[marccouture]

Also, how can I add support for accentuated characters in this module?  All posts with characters such as é, à, à, etc., all appear as question marks on the public side...  Thanks!

[DGEC]

I know it will give some detail away about your install.
It could be rewritten, ie, the thumb routine could fetch the path start from config.

Let me know if this will do and I will change it.

If you can do this, it would be very good for many people. For example, I have a customer site that is in a subdirectory of my main site - much better for it to show up as a link to their domain not mine.
Also helpful if you move the site location, reduces the work required. When I created the site, I had it in a subdirectory because I couldn't use their domain name yet. I had to change all the images when I went live with the site.

[brownj]

Yeah, how do we solve this root image problem? I am going to India in a couple of weeks, I thought the media blog would be a good way to keep in touch with family and friends, to let them know what I am doing.

[subzero569]

I am trying out mediablog module on a client site.  Everything works well except the long text for items.  I don't see anywhere in the settings to display the long text.  I see '[SHORT]' but isn't displayed when clicking the 'Read More' link only the Title and author info.  I tried to add [LONG] but it doesn't work.  Any thoughts?

Can someone assist, please?

Thanks.

[pcwacht]

the long story is hardcoded in the view.php of the mediablog

Look in view.php at around line: 380

Code:

// Print long
echo $item_long;

The item_long is not parsed yet in template form at field item_header.


John

[kickarse]

For the "Add Comment" link I get

http://www.vnaandhospice.org/pages/media_items/%5C%22http://www.vnaandhospice.org/modules/mediablog/comment.php?id=2\%22

[pcwacht]

Am looking at that as well

[kickarse]

I tried fixing it in the view.php but everything I do screws the install...

[pcwacht]

Try xampp for testing and fiddling (www.apachefriends.d e)

Installs like a breeze in windows, doesn't touch the registry and works like a charm

Then you can edit files, save them and test them on your local install.

Have fun,
John